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Title: Inherited Shame
Runtime: 50 min
Country: Hungary
Director: Fruzsina Skrabski, Sándor Kiss
Placement: Award of Merit
Competition: March, 2026
Synopsis: The Inherited Shame is the sequel to the 2013 film Silenced Shame. The first film is about the Hungarian victims of rape during the Soviet occupation of Hungary during World War II, and the sequel is about the children and grandchildren of victims of Soviet soldiers’ brutality against Hungarian women and how they successfully or unsuccessfully processed the trauma. The head of the Gulág Foundation, inherited this organization from her mother, and she works tirelessly to make the past accessible to the future generation.